Comedy from Josh Taylor

We're celebrating the best creatives where we live, with Nina Das Gupta, including:

• From naked beat-boxing clowns to selling tickets on a fish rod, mad life-sized octopi and dancing apples, we're diving head first in to the world's biggest arts festival, getting to know some of the local acts cooking up a storm at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Oswestry's Dru Cripps, Bromsgrove's Max Ponsoby, Halesowen's Ash Baker and Bridgnorth's Jon Gibbons reflect on the madness and celebration of creativity north of the border.

• It sounds like it should have been around forever - but now officially exists. Get to know award-winning Birmingham actor and producer Poppy Abbott, who's just launched the first ever Midlands Acting Directory, match-making creatives both in front of and behind the camera.

• It's one of our area's newest hubs of talent: From film to poetry, music and spoken word, there's nothing this place won't host and celebrate. Discover The Futurist Cinema, in Kidderminster, making a difference to creatives across the West Midlands.

• Plus live comedy from a probation office who floored us with his deadpan delivery, taking absurdism to new heights, from our stage at the Rik Mayall Comedy Festival. Josh Taylor is on, leaving no prisoners!

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